I felt stuck. Not just in the literal sense, but I hadn’t made a great sequence of movements since I began my work in France. London didn’t really count. It seemed more like a vacation where I arrived by air, drank beer, and spent more money than I’d wanted to. Usually, I’m much more, well, cheap, but perhaps making some extra cash on the road working long hours in the middle of nowhere with sick kids made me go a little stir-crazy, I don’t know. Anyways, I fueled my splurging spree by going to see the musical ‘Wicked’ in the West End, buying new shoes, and spending close to the same amount in cocktails in the up-and-coming and very bohemian Brick Lane neighborhood. The museums were free, of course, and I thoroughly enjoyed my days spent at the Tate Modern Museum of Art finally seeing Marcel Duchamp’s urinal and spending the afternoon looking at the Mummies of Ancient Egypt with a Croatian girl who taught me just as much about Ancient Croatia. Mostly, though, London just made me want to buy overpriced things, want to eat overpriced food, and in general, want things I was forgetting I really didn’t need.
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This will be my shortest post ever. It’s almost breakfast time here at American Village, an immersion camp I worked for two summers ago here in France. The sites change constantly, but when I heard I would be going to the stunningly beautiful countryside of Burgundy, I was thrilled. This is my first time in the region and I am highly impressed.
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I never actually wanted to leave Rotterdam, but I need to get to Brittany, France for work obligations. I have very few obligations these days, but this is one of them. Besides, I could desperately use the money. My preferred method of travel is hitchhiking. Not only does it save money on expensive train fares, but I also consider it a more eco-friendly option as well. In my opinion, travel is not the place, but its people, and hitchhiking is a great way to meet new people and continue learning the language of the country. I move much quicker than my last trip and am in Paris by early evening; without a place to sleep.
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